Youngster! 
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Mine landed yesterday. Sleeve undamaged but won’t be able to see if its flat / playable until tonight or tomorrow 
Also never heard of them, although I do rate Peter Green.
Wow!
Alexis Corner?
Graham Bond Experience?
The three seminal British Blues bands / band leaders
Without them no Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Rolling Stones Free, Coliseum etc etc
British Rock roots are intertwined with these 60s pioneers
Nope, those two neither, nor Coliseum and, as far as I remember, never listened to any Cream.
Yeah mine arrived, dented and creased cover. Hugely warped record!
Not sure I can be arsed for the sake of £7 but it’s pretty useless
I’m still in communication with Speedy Hen regarding getting a replacement without the faff of returning the dodgy copy.
It’s a De Agostini pressing so perhaps originally from a magazine subscription thing like the jazz series they produced a few years ago.
tell them there are about 20 other people in a queue behind you. I suspect if theres been this many bad prints, you’re very unlikely to get a good one unless they open them all.
for the sake of £7, i’m gonna heat mine up to 50 degrees in my ultrasonic bath and then sandwich it between two sheets of marble to press it flat while it cools.
I thought the de Agostini jazz pressings were OK in a wander into Smiths and walk out with a record sort of way. Possibly storage not so great in this case.
I’ve often wondered if that would work.
Interested to know how it goes.
Luckily, mine is flat and undamaged and plays well.
…Badly most often. Records are not flat, the run i and label area are usually thicker two doughnut shaped pieces of thick glass (Ie label area cut out and a diameter of just under the run in) I’ve seen work depending on the type of damage.
Did you ever get that flattening machine you told me about a while back? I thought you’d ordered one.
De Agostini are cheap because they are corner cutting digital nihilists. That said they use MPO in France who are perhaps not the worst plant…If De Agostini push on price they will get the worst from them if this makes sense.
Here’s a recent price list form an independent pressing agent who until recently were my neighbors at the workshop. They press at GZ in the Czech republic. (I’m showing this to note that even poor pressings are expensive to do these days, this is their cheapest package):
…Consider the costs below of the most basic LP offered currently before: Distribution (A lump goes here) / wholesale Margin (another lump here) / Legal fees / Graphic Design / Marketing / transportation / storage /Promo copies / test pressings / Tax on profits / non sales… micro labels are probably not VAT reg so slap another 20% where applicable
- and a wheelbarrow of other major outgoings (Studio recording time or royalties / rights etc) and err time / wages.
Bargain bummer…If a new record is super cheap it’s because it’s either deadstock or so many corners have been cut it would be a wonder if it plays well.
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I’ve had a few the one I’m really after is the AFI flat - There is a new model of this out so I’m angling for one of them which also features the ‘relax mode’ which just typing it gives me more than Viagra.
One of the cheapest ways to flatten would be this:
The thing here is the temp is very variable depending on pressing and vinyl composition - Someone put together a ‘cook sheet’ of different labels / times and temps… The results are very very mixed here as there are varying degrees of damage - Storage warp / dishing / buckling / full on heat wave etc.
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HAHAHA, lol. Love it.
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Corner cutting digital nihilists. Remember 4 Men With Beards?
I’ve never had a problem with their output
Edit: Lol, somehow confused them with Light in the Attic. Soz
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Hahah 4 men no ears - They re issued vinyl mastered from CD sources. They are under the Runt umbrella I think - I wouldn’t go near them even for a laugh.
Experience is a bitter companion, I fear. I do so desperately not want to disappear down the rabbit holes of matrix numbers and first pressings.